12-20 September 2026
‘Poetic Portraits’ was the winner of the Council for the Humanities Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) Distinctive Works Prize in 2024. This online event, for Social Sciences Week, will be a conversation between the project team and Frank Bongiorno, CHASS...
You are warmly invited to an expert panel event led by JBC’s Professor Marinella Marmo to explore the enduring legacy of colonialism through personal experience and political reflection. The seminar is anchored in The Chosen Son, Professor Leanne Weber’s deeply moving...
Presenter: Peta Lawler Abstract: Periods can quietly push girls out of outdoor programs—through discomfort, shame, or lack of support. This session explores the real impact of menstruation in the outdoors and what we can do about it. We’ll share practical strategies,...
This event invites people to come together and reflect on what solidarity means in our world today. Drawing on ideas from Emile Durkheim, the event explores how connection, cooperation, and shared purpose can help us respond to the challenges of an increasingly...
This public forum brings together a group of scholars and landscape practitioners whose work troubles separations that are often artificially drawn between 'nature' and 'culture'. Looking at a diversity of actors, from estrogens and wild animals to water and plant...
Co-creating dance research with and for dancers with Down syndrome Dancekin RMIT “Duo Piece” is a powerful collaboration between dancers, artists and researchers exploring how dance with people with Down syndrome can spark connection, creativity, and social change....
The Centre for Social Organisations and Change (COSC) and the Social Equity Research Centre (SERC) at RMIT University invite you to a panel discussion examining contemporary issues fuelling gender inequality as part of Social Sciences Week. Moderated by Professor Lisa...
Visit the Arts Precinct at Macquarie University during this year's 2023 Social Sciences Week for a special preview of research findings from a visual ethnography project, Informal Sport and the Urban Commons, exploring the role that informal sport plays in...
A conversation about gaps of inclusion in universities, and blocks and pathways to tertiary education for students with a refugee background This panel will consider gaps of inclusion in universities and blocks and pathways to tertiary education for current and...